Derivation of tropospheric aerosol properties from satellite observations

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 342, Issue 4-5, 2010, Pages 403-411

  Tanré, Didier ^a  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Radiative processes; Remote sensing; Tropospheric aerosols

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL PROPERTY; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPTICAL DEPTH; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; TROPOSPHERE;

EID: 77951653054     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2010.02.003     Document Type: Article

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